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Biography

Based in Anchorage, Alaska, Ann Pence has recently released her 2nd CD, "Gotcha Day," a suite of songs about the process of adopting children from China. As "auntie" to her friends' girls adopted from China, Ann wrote songs that describe the adoption experience from various points of view. The first song, Another Life, describes the half light of a child's life between abandonment and adoption, and the last song, Forgiven, is the song of the adopted girl who has grown up and gone back to China, searching for the thread that connects her past and her present.

All songs are available at iTunes and other on line music stores.

You can visit cdbaby.com and listen to 2 minute clips of all songs.

Songs from Dog's Life and Gotcha Day receive regular airplay on KNBA 90.3, Whole Wheat Radio (http://www.talkeetna-alaska.com/radio.php), and several other internet stations. Whole Wheat Radio has some of Ann's songs that have not been recorded elsewhere.Ann has opened for Peter Case and Dayna Kurtz.

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Another Life

Box like a cradleWaiting all nightLittle hands open wideTo the dawn of another life

Left at the gateIn the jade-green lightLaid down by loveIn the arms of another life, another life

Love is not one country or one culture or one nameLove is blind; that’s not an empty saying

Named by your motherFor a bird in flightFor a safe journey homeFly home to another name, another life

We belong to love wherever love is we shall beI will fly to you and you to meI will fly to you and you to me

Forgiven

Written By: Ann Pence

I can feel you as I am walkingOut along the dragon wallI have come back and I am searching forSomething I can’t see at allI have no pictures, I have no lettersTo tell me if this is my homeBut my past is waking from a slumber Deep inside these stones

Little flowers need lots of water andSun to start them on their wayThey will grow if the soil is rightAnd the roots are given room to strayI have traveled 8,000 miles Just to feel my feet on my own landSometimes flowers need to be dividedTo do the best they can

You let me go but I’m here so you’ll know thatI have forgiven you

Sometimes silence speaks so loudlyWithout saying anythingExplanations can make you wish you hadStopped your questioningSometimes stories I tell myself can beSo much better than the truthI believe you loved me and you left meand that’s what love had to do

You let me go, but I’m here so you’ll know thatI have forgiven youI have forgiven you

Deep & Blue

Written By: Ann Pence

Your love's just like a snow stormIn the summertimeIt feels just like a sharp thornOn a velvet vineI thought I'd earned my place in the sunshinebut I'm down in the deep and blue.

I ask you why, you don't say too much.You look at me, but we never touch.I look away, I look around, I look at rainAnd I'm down in the deep, oh yes I'm down in the deep and blue.

Well I could stick around for that long goodbyeI could reach in my heart, but I'll never know whyEvery man's made of stone when a woman criesAnd I'm down in the deep, oh yes I'm down in the deep and blue

Can't Walk Away

Written By: Ann Pence

She stands in the cornerNear the broken frameThat held their smiling facesBefore the babies cameA bird is singing far awayOn the branch of a willow treeIn the yard of a house on a street in the lifeOf a happy family

Chorus:But she can't walk awayShe asked God, and he said NoNo, she can't walk awayIt hurts her, and it showsIt's a hard choice, but she knowsShe can't walk away

Your grandfather told you"Leave me, I'll be fine."So you took your kids to HoustonLeft your grandfather behindHis house half under waterHis home where he was bornHe stayed and watched his worldly thingsSurrender to the storm

He can't walk awayHe asked God and he said NoNo, he can't walk awayIt hurts him and it showsIt's a hard choice, but he knowsHe can't walk away

Bridge:Sometimes things look easy on the outsideAfter all the struggling is doneBut choices start with questions on the insideIn the end you're gonna know which way to goyou're gonna knowIf you should stay or walk away

Final chorus:Sometimes we can't walk awayWe ask God and he says NoWe just can't walk awayIt hurts us and it showsIt's a hard choice, but we knowEveryone says we should goBut we can't walk away